Captain Cur Poems

Wild love!
Dance with severed wings no more!
Demanding heights these glorious scenes explore,
the precipice awaits, leap, take on flight
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Merriment is gone, let those laughs be still,
is love a fever or a deadly chill?
The burning fire and the numbing freeze
mete out the symptoms of this dread disease;
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When in summer the gilded days did frame
the seeds of life, the handsome blooms that dwell
in flowering youth, beauty loathe to tame
that which strives to their highest form excel;
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Beyond the margin of the bay, outspread
where sea grass drinks and forms a shiny bed
swaying in unison anchored to their roots
in silent beauty bears to us their fruit;
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To catch a glimpse of unending summer
which folds within the springtime and the fall
in her heart reigns the eternal flower
winter kings cannot freeze or overthrow.
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Tonight the sea is calm and fair
her mind flows unperturbed
she breathes in deep the dapper air
with wholesome silent mirth;
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Saddened I turn from England's sandy bar,
I am off, off to fight another war,
and the wild pilgrimage of fate unfolds
to mine the riches of the ocean's gold.
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Embracing gifts of mind, clasped hand to hand,
She followed where caverns of darkness led
Through the fires of burnt forsaken land,
Hearing the cries of the forgotten dead
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Men enslaved men, binding body and soul,
In this squalid state hopeless hours spent;
But, freedom of thought chains cannot control,
Fastened and locked their steely teeth clenched
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Mavros, the first dweller of this earth, lone
Warrior born from the fires of chaos, scarred,
Burned by lava rock, his meteor eyes shone
With crushing intelligence, footed for war,
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